Holidays in the grocery business(my full-time gig) are brutal. LONG hours, lots of high-blood pressure, and many headaches. Makes you wonder if it’s really the “most wonderful time of the year”.
Whether you blog or have a static website, there are plenty of reasons to bring special attention to certain elements within your page.
In my last post, I showed you an easy way to wrap text in a box using CSS by placing the CSS/HTML code directly in your post. That can come in extremely handy in the right situation. But what if you put this block of info in every post, or every other post, or once a week? Even though it’s not difficult, re-typing that code every time could become a chore. In this post, we’ll look at how to get the same effect by adding the CSS in your stylesheet once, and assigning a class to the div we wrap around the text.
Also, I just had my first guest posting gig. The post can be seen here. It’s sort of neat seeing something you wrote on someone else’s site….especially when the site is a petty popular one.
Every now and then, you may need to post a short message or notice to let your website visitors know about something out of the ordinary. Actually you can use this little technique for multiple purposes! Creating a back-drop for such notices is an easy process that can truly make this message….noticable! With just a little CSS code put directly into your post, you can make these messages look almost any way you want them to. Here’s an example:
*Notice to Readers - On December 25, I’ll be spending the entire day with my family and visiting relatives, so I will not be posting this year on Christmas day. I will resume my posting immediately after the holidays. Have a Merry Christmas!
If I were to ask you what the term web design means, what would your answer be?
If you’re like me, the term generally opens the mind’s eye to different color schemes, different layout choices, and a host of other elements that shape and form the way a website looks. However, the more I learn about design and information architecture, the more I realize that perhaps both the architecture and appearance play equal roles in web design. I’ve spent some time lately trying to improve my website. Part of that has been tweaking the visual design, but more importantly, making my best content as easy as possible to find. I’ve had a few goals in mind for a while now, which I think are a good starting point:
It’s strange, I’ve posted here on Antbag.com a lot less over the past two months or so as I’ve picked up more work, but my blog seems to be picking up a little steam. My subscriber count is higher than it’s ever been, my daily unique visitor count is up. I’ve had some much larger days than I’m having right now(days I’ve launched a new WP Theme, with it’s subsequent announcement on Weblog Tools Collection), but not on a consistent basis.
Another neat thing, due to backlinks from my WP Themes, is that I’ve been listed this week in Technoratti’s Top 100 popular blogs at #99. I seriously would have expected this to bring in a rush of traffic, but truth is, it hasn’t. According to my stats, I’ve not had even one referrel this week from Technoratti….strange.
As for being in the Top 100, I know there are quite a few designers out there who have WAY more back-links than me, but are not listed in the Top 100 popular blogs. My assumption is that once they figure out the reason I have all those back-links(Wordpress Themes), I’ll be off the list. Anyway, kinda nice to see my blog listed.
